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Originally Posted by Ramrod
What is getting boring & predictable is how people and some parts of the press are discussing Corbyn and his policies as if he has proper grown up ideas rather than policies that have been proven to be unworkable (unless you actually want to grind a country down).
It's like some people have forgotten the total shambles of brutality and wishful thinking that was the soviet union. The wheel turns and there are a whole new bunch of rose tinted idiots who either think that this time it will all work out or have simply never learnt the lessons of the past in the first place.  |
The press have hardly been kind to Corbyn for the most part. He is bound to at least attract some praise from left-wing papers but I hardly think you can complain he hasn't had a tough time from the media at large. That is their job after all.
I don't think constant comparisons to the Soviet Union help. It seems be a default reaction to everything but it's no more useful than accusing the Conservatives of wanting to price the poor out of medical care and generally aiming to bring about a brutal dystopian state with unrestrained capitalism.
The thing is Corbyn's views will gain traction in the area left for him by the Tories refusal to do anything substantive about the housing crisis. The thing with simplistic populist policy is that it can be quite popular and easy for people to connect with.
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Originally Posted by Osem
 It's only 'tedious' to who have no answers and are comforted by simplistic nonsense. |
I don't recall people finding that a problem with Farage.
